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An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the ...

Because we haven't found anything yet, we've started to wonder if dark matter might be lighter or heavier than we thought.

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Almost two centuries after the first Neanderthal was discovered, we are still learning a great deal about our ancient ...

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The dataset covers the period between September 2004 and December 2023 and will enable researchers to explore and model some ...

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